Joy of Man's Desiring

Que ta joie demeure

Synopsis

Who is the woman addressing as she looks over her shoulder, eyes cast down, and speaks? The director, the audience, an invisible third party? Softly, yet firmly, she explains that ‘we have to trust each other’. The opening scene sets the tone of the film.

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Everything you love from Jia, Godard-Miéville, James Benning, and Hitchcock. But it's an idiosyncratic, enigmatic singularity. Though obviously by the same guy who did the pretty-wonderful Carcasses (who is the Côté I want when I ask my server for some Côté). Like a really great jazz orchestra improvising w/ dexterity off a bullet-proof proto-compositional conceit.